Utility function to disable tx checksum offload

net/ethtool.go

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+package net
+
+import "fmt"
+import "syscall"
+import "unsafe"
+
+const (
+	SIOCETHTOOL     = 0x8946     // linux/sockios.h
+	ETHTOOL_STXCSUM = 0x00000017 // linux/ethtool.h
+	IFNAMSIZ        = 16         // linux/if.h
+)
+
+// linux/if.h 'struct ifreq'
+type IFReqData struct {
+	Name [IFNAMSIZ]byte
+	Data uintptr
+}
+
+// linux/ethtool.h 'struct ethtool_value'
+type EthtoolValue struct {
+	Cmd  uint32
+	Data uint32
+}
+
+// Disable TX checksum offload on specified interface
+func EthtoolTXOff(name string) error {
+	if len(name)+1 > IFNAMSIZ {
+		return fmt.Errorf("name too long")
+	}
+
+	value := EthtoolValue{ETHTOOL_STXCSUM, 0}
+	request := IFReqData{Data: uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&value))}
+
+	copy(request.Name[:], name)
+
+	socket, err := syscall.Socket(syscall.AF_INET, syscall.SOCK_DGRAM, 0)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	defer syscall.Close(socket)
+
+	_, _, errno := syscall.RawSyscall(syscall.SYS_IOCTL,
+		uintptr(socket),
+		uintptr(SIOCETHTOOL),
+		uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&request)))
+
+	if errno != 0 {
+		return errno
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}